More than 90 municipalities in the districts of Faro, Santarém, Portalegre, Castelo Branco, Leiria, Coimbra, Guarda, Viseu, Bragança and Vila Real are today.
Fifty municipalities in the interior of the North and Centere and in the Algarve are currently at maximum risk of fire, at a time when temperatures will.
Twenty-seven mainland municipalities at very high risk of fire
Twenty-seven mainland municipalities are today at very high risk of fire.
These are in the districts of Faro, Portalegre, Santarém, Castelo Branco, Viseu, Bragança and Vila Real.
According to the Portuguese Met Office more than 60 counties are at high risk.
This indicator will remain very high at least until the beginning of next week.
Calculations are based on air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and rainfall in the last 24 hours.
Seventeen districts of mainland Portugal and the island of Flores, in the Azores, today have a very high risk of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation,.